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Car bomb wounds six Iraqis in N Iraq
(Xinhua) -- Six Iraqi people were injured Tuesday by a car bomb explosion targeting Iraqi security forces in the city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said. A booby-trapped car parked in the 17th of July neighborhood in western Mosul detonated near an Iraqi army patrol, wounding six people, including two soldiers, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. A military vehicle was also damaged by the attack, the source added. In northern Mosul, another car bomb went off in the al-Arabi neighborhood, causing damages to several nearby buildings, the source said without giving more details. Earlier, the source said eight people were killed and five others injured by two suicide bomb attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in the city. Nineveh province, including its capital Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, was believed to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country. The U.S. and Iraqi security forces have been staging a major security crackdown in Nineveh to uproot al-Qaida militants and other anti-U.S. insurgents. Posted by: Fred 2008-07-16 |
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